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The outer conductance

Dan,

Someone on the "other site" measured some conductance on the outer stuff, it's not clear to me whether it was an attribute of the ceramic or a coating upon it. Whichever it was, it's probably the key to this thing, if indeed it's anything beyond flummery.

My current philosophy is to assume that other's experiences are usually true and that their explanations for the same are usually bogus. If that's the case here, it behooves one to consider what might actually be happening within the device. If indeed the shell is resistive, then a reasonable model would be a series resistor and inductor, the WW resistor, shunted by a resistor, the shell. Due to the geometry of the thing, the shell, for lack of a better term, will have low inductance and should remain largely resistive into the GHz region. So throughout a large part of the spectrum it will be lossy. Unfortunately I haven't been able to tell from the postings how conductive the shell is. Based upon your measurements the corner of the resistor is about 15KHz so the effect, if any, will be above that.

If you have access to other gear, perhaps at work, try measuring the critter at much higher frequencies. The interesting point would be the location of the second corner where the outer conductance dominates the transfer function.

I think your position is that measurable electrical characteristics of the device, will fully account for any effect that it may have. I suggest that if you fully characterize the device electrically and then build another that exhibits the same characteristics then you are ready to put your theory to the test. If they both "sound" the same you will have proven either that the quantum BS is just that or that your device exhibits the same magic, which it may. If different, then there may be more things in heaven and earth...

For what it's worth, I tend to believe pragmatically that I don't need to worry about quanta below q. I've made my living for four decades using that assumption and have seen no reason to doubt it. But I'm keenly aware that engineering is based completely upon simplified models of the "real" world, and mine may be simpler than most. You just can't get anything accomplished without deliberately ignoring a lot of stuff and experience brings you up short when you've guessed wrong.

Good luck in your investigations. I would really like to know if there is anything to this. Certainly the "technical" marketing stuff on their website is highly off-putting, but the hell of it is that doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't help in some fashion.

Rick

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